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RE: Selling delegation, becoming voting bots, in the middle of whale wars. Where did all the human curators go?
My take on this is that are (at least) a few things that could cause numbers of users to stagnate or even drop.
- If the overall quality of content is too poor.
- If there too little connection btween quality of content and post rewards - i.e.: the top of trending is full of idiotic bid-bot upvoted trash.
- Just plain not enough content that the average person is interested in.
Numbers of plankton/minnows etc. matter. Established authors/youtubers etc. need an audience, and won't come across (and stay) without them. If numbers stay too flat for too long or go backwards, I'd begin to wonder about the future of the platform, and I wouldn't be the only one.
I think you are right @samueldouglas but I would add that steepshot is making a dent. It's exactly like instagram and people can bring their entire network over and share as they currently do but earn rewards. I think it has a strong appeal and blogging will become less of a "thing" on steem blockchain. I'm not sure that social media requires 100% good content but we will see.